Committees
Museum Committee
Description
The Museum Committee provides a bridge between scholars and arts professionals in the academic and museum fields. It offers a forum for the discussion of issues of mutual interest and promotes museum advocacy issues within CAA. The committee lends support and mentorship for both seasoned and emerging professionals to protect and interpret the arts within museums.
2012 Annual Conference
The Museum Committee will host the following session at the 100th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California.
Curators in the Spotlight: Dealing with Controversy and the Unexpected in Developing and Presenting Recent Exhibitions
Friday, February 24, 12:30–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Holly Rachel Harrison, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art
“Art, Politics, and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna: Thoughts on a Controversy”
Deborah M. Rothschild, Williams College Museum of Art
“Croatia Rising: Repackaging Cultural Patrimony”
Laurel Reed Pavic, Oregon College of Art and Craft
“From Local to Global: How a Small College Art Gallery Landed on the World Stage”
Leonie Bradbury, Montserrat College of Art
Current Projects
The Museum Committee’s current projects include conducting a survey of museum-affiliated CAA members to assess how the committee can better serve their interests, and working on a broader CAA initiative encouraging museums to share images of works in their collections to scholars free of charge. The committee also serves an advocacy role in museum-deaccession issues and connects with two CAA affiliated societies, the Association of Art Museum Curators and the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, when appropriate.
Committee Members
Karol Ann Lawson, Sweet Briar College, Chair (2013)
Bruce Boucher, University of Virginia Art Museum (2015)
Helen Burnham, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2014)
Christa Clarke, Newark Museum (2014)
Michael Fahlund, CAA Staff Liaison (ex officio)
Anne Collins Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, CAA Board Liaison (ex officio)
Saadia N. Lawton, Lincoln University (2015)
Janet Marstine, University of Leicester (2013)
Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art (2013)
Briley Rasmussen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014)
N. Elizabeth Schlatter, University of Richmond Museums
(2014)
Celka Straughn, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas (2015)
